Ridley’s Believe It Or Not February 23, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV
pandemic across the planet continues the new year with surging cases now past
112 million at 112,207,479 with 305,105 new cases (a .27% increase) 21,954,344
of which are active, 90,558,240 closed with 88,066,298 recoveries
(97.25% and 97.24% yesterday) and 2,491,492 deaths (2.75% and 2.76% yesterday)
to continue the trend of increased cases with increased
recovery percentages and decreased death percentages with some plateaus.
CV USA Cases: Total cases now
over 28 million at 28,867,562 with 63,397 new cases (a .22% increase) with 9,186,785
active cases of which 16,542 (.18% of active cases and a decrease now of 12,729
from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical
condition, 19,680,777 closures, 513,985 of which have been deaths (2.61%
and 2.62% yesterday) and 19,166,792 of which have been recoveries (97.39%
and 97.38% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after
many months is now .14% lower than the world rate and now .04% lower than
Canada which has the socialized type medicine Biden may well want to implement
here and on a deaths per million population measurement on a steady
climb to 1547 ranks behind Belgium (1886), UK (1781) which had passed us
despite leading world in testing), Italy (1595), and Portugal (1581) and only
slightly worse than Hungary (1498), Spain
(1456), Bulgaria (1437), Mexico (1391), Peru (1361), France (1301),
Sweden (1254) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently
been experiencing a rapid rise in deaths, Brazil (1158), Switzerland
(1142), Argentina (1130), Poland (1122), Chile (1048), and Bolivia (974) and we
have now conducted 350,656,908 tests (now at 1,055,379/M) compared to
Russia at 750,813/M) as we are conducting more tests in number and
on a per capital basis for all nations (other than those nations that contain
small populations like Bahrain, Denmark, Israel, Malta, Singapore
and UAE) other than the U.K. which remains off the testing charts with tests at
1,276,938/M.
US Vaccinations: In the
U.S. as of 2/22/2021 64.2 million doses have been given, 1.37 million per day
in the last week (sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will
take us some 10 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many
believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 7,604,725 total
doses have been given (up to 82.9% of doses received), but typical of Newsom’s
ineptness and because more than 1.5 million recall signatures have been turned
in, due to the power of growing signatures on his recall petition, California
has moved down slightly to now at 36th out of 50 in terms of the
percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the
states. A long way to go to get herd immunity and little improvement relative
to other states and a great reason to recall this inept governor. As of 2/23/2021
in California we have reduced hospitalizations to 7,165 with COVID-19 patients
hospitalized occupying 12.0% of all hospital beds.
Non CV Case News: Tiger Woods
was involved in a life threatening one car collision in his SUV near Palos
Verdes and was undergoing surgery for
two broken legs and a shattered ankle; Dr. Fauci is coming under renewed
criticism over his disturbing flip flops on mask wearing, school and business
reopening and vaccine levels needed for herd immunity leading to speculation
that he is influenced by political winds coming from the White House or worse
feeling the mental decline associated with his 80 years; Senator Murkowski must
be having some impeachment remorse as she lashed out at Biden’s nominee for
Secretary of the Interior for his going along with Biden’s targeting of Alaska
for his executive order freeze on oil and gas leases in ANWR; CNN can’t help
itself to take any opportunity to lash out at Trump after Trump quickly lauded
Tiger Woods and expressed his thoughts and prayers for his speedy recovery
following his automobile accident this morning which prompted CNN
“sportscaster” Andy Scholes to speculate that Tiger’s past use of painkillers
may have contributed to the accident (an inane speculation that he was forced
to quickly walk back); Iranian dissidents having endured 8 years of Obama/Biden
feckless policies toward the terrorist sponsoring mullahs of Iran are pleading
with Biden to stand firm against the regime given its weakness today (sad but
do not expect that to happen not with Kerry anywhere near Biden’s ear);
resigned Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund testified before a Senate Committee
on the January 6, 2021 riots that Trump was supposedly inciting with his speech
the same day that the riot was well planned in advance (when will the Senate
start demanding the removal of troops from the Swamp that have made Washington,
D.C. look more like Beirut under siege?); maybe New Yorkers have been numbed by
the disaster of the nursing home deaths from COVID-19 but a recent poll found
that 42 % thought Cuomo was doing a good or excellent job compared to 60 % last
summer; BLM has evidently been nominated for a Nobel Peace Price which should
come as a surprise to the thousands of shop owners burnt out and looted out be
BLM protests/riots and has disclosed it raised $90 million in 2020 ( White Guilt
is the mother’s milk of PC donations); when it comes to inanity Jason Sattler
of USA Today is leading the pack for
claiming CV dead should be buried at Mar-A-Lago (guess Andrew Cuomo did not
have a big enough yard); on the opening up classrooms front the rhetoric heats
up and the in class learning still closed as Bethany Meyers a special ed
teacher attacks rich white parents for kids’ distress and enhancing their
entitlement; Psaki is out of her mind if she believes her announcements that
this is not the time to come to the border will be listened to by the growing
flood of illegal migrants streaming to the border; Biden’s first test on his
rhetoric with China will soon come after Canada has called China’s treatment of
its Uighur minority as genocide (smart money is that Biden will rant and rave
and then do nothing); too bad we do not have a Truth in Labeling Law when it
comes to Congress as the COVID Relief Bill which has almost nothing to do with
COVID when there is still money to be spent from earlier bills may be voted on
Friday which the Blues will try to ram down Red throats; Buffalo School System
appears to be capitulating to the systematic racism scheme that all white
people are contributing to (to bad in questioning Merrick Garland today as he ranted
about the need of the DOJ to attack systematic racism that no one asked him to
give specific examples of what a large portion of the population believes does
not exist); leave it to political cartoonists to put reality into proper focus:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow ;although 80% of
the recall Newsom signatures have been verified, signature drive continues to
insure a recall in the event that any of the 1.5 million signatures already
received are not valid to insure Newsom is put on a recall ballot where he
needs to be given his unmitigated ineptness: https://recallgavin2020.com/petition/
Chicago Gun
Violence: HeyJackass.com is back to show that through February 21,
2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting
persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 383 persons shot of whom 80 have
died.
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for
this day in history, a musical link to “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” by Paul
Whiteman and His Orchestra, the fact that you enjoy a quiff on a hot day
and a quote by Jonas Salk on the safety of his vaccine, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Mother’s
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1. World Peace and
Understanding Day—celebrated on this day since 1905 the formation of the world’s
first Rotary Club by Paul Harris, Gustave Loehr, Hiram Shorey, and Silvester
Schiele 2015 to promote goodwill, peace and understanding in one’s community
and worldwide and memorialized on this day in 1983 by Rotary International
which has grown to some 35,000 chapters.
2. Curling Is Cool
Day—celebrating
one of the oldest team sports known to man and played on ice covered ponds and
lakes since the early 16th Century and now on indoor rinks and since
1924 a Winter Olympic Sport.
3. 1934 Number One Song—the number 1 song in 1934 on this day with a run of 5 weeks in
that position was “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra.
Here is a recording of Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra performing “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsObSw3_LUo Paul was a violinist and with
his Orchestra known as the “King of Jazz” who performed into the 60’s and died
of a heart attack on December 29,1967 at age 77.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “quiff” which means a puff or gust of wind which on a hot day is always
a refreshing event.
5. Delivering the
Mushroom--celebrating the birth on this day in 1915 of Paul Tibbets, noted
Air Force pilot who flew Enola Gay, a B-29 named after his mother to drop “Little
Boy”, the atomic bomb, on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 which, when followed by a
second atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki, brought a quick end to World War II.
Tibbets had a successful career in business after retiring from the Air Force
and died of natural causes at the age of 92 on November 1, 2007.
On
this day in:
a. 1954 to the
joy of parents fearful of the scourge of Polio, the first mass inoculations of
children with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh.
b. 1974 the Symbionese
Liberation Army demanded a payment of $4 million to release their kidnapped
captive heiress Patty Hearst.
c. 1983
the EPA announced its intent to buy out the dioxin contaminated community of
Times Beach, Missouri.
d. 1988 Saddam Hussein began the Anfal
Campaign of genocide against Iraqi Kurds in Northern Iraq which resulted in the
deaths of some 182,000 Kurds whose only crime was being a Kurd.
e. 2008 a B-2
Stealth Bomber crashed on Guam, marking the first operational loss of a B-2 and
probably the most expensive crash in Air Force history due to the enormous cost
of the plane.
Reflections on the Salk vaccine: “Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio
vaccine he developed:It is safe, and you can’t get any safer than safe.”
Jonas Salk.
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